For my first game of the season I decided to hit up New Britain, because the Red Sox AA affiliate was coming in for their home opener with many new faces.
I had originally wanted to go to the day game tomorrow(Friday), but it was looking like it would rain all day tomorrow. Another option was Pawtucket tonight or Friday night, but again, rain was going to be an issue.
I took the short drive to New Britain after class, and I got there just in time. I was SHOCKED when the bus pulled up because I had only been there for about 10 minutes.
Off of the first bus, it was hard to stop many guys because at that point there was only one other guy and I. We stopped the best 2 prospects, Connecticut native Matt Barnes, and Xander Bogaerts.
Bogaerts signed two, then said, " I sign 2. I get 2 hits and I sign more."
The second bus came in about an hour later, and nobody stopped at all. Daniel Bard seemed to want nothing to do with anything, and completely ignored us.
Anthony Ranaudo wouldn't sign inside for me, but I got a number of guys.
I was able to get Barnes again on a ball:
Former Red Sox catcher Rich Gedman:
He would have signed them all, but he seemed super paranoid about getting hit by a ball during BP.
Infielder Kolbrin Vitek(The scan got cut off just a bit):
Ryan Dent, who was nice as always:
And finally, Ronald Bermudez:
I tried to get Bob Kipper right before BP, but he said he would get me later. I left soon after.
Total Autographs for 2013:139
Top Autographs for 2013:1)Tommie Smith 2)Rudy Giuliani 3)Sonia Sotomayor 4)Jim Rice 5)Jeff Bridges
are you graphing Pawutcket soon?
ReplyDeleteThis weekend(Sunday). I'm still in college until like Mid-May, so I always just go at random times. But once the semester ends I go quite a lot. Let me know if you need anyone!
DeleteNice I am also going and graphing. I'm mainly going to do the PawSox how about yourself?
ReplyDeleteMostly PawSox, occasionally New Britain, and a lot of NYPL after they start in June. Are you a regular at Pawtucket?
ReplyDeleteNot really a regular but I will be there more often. That's cool I will probably be more of a Cape Cod league regular come summer
ReplyDeleteThe Cape is a bit of a drive for me so I've never been. But I'll take a trip up one year. How did you end up finding my site? I'm always curious how different people come across it.
ReplyDeleteI look up ip recaps of pawtucket on Google and this was the best site with updated results
DeleteGood stuff man. Where do you get all your cards? Do you do any 8 x 10s of Sea Dogs?
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteI usually buy cards on justcommons.com, or ebay. I don't really do many 8x10's for baseball, but am certainly not opposed to it